Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-17
THE FIRE FIEND.
SWALLOWED UP In The FLAMES,
A Large Warehouse Burns-Hsavy Loss
Of Life and Property.
HEROIC WORK OF BRAVE FIREMEN.
A Home For Children COnsumsd-Panic
Among Inmates.

NEW 1ORk, July l6.-Fire vas discoy-
cred about three o'clock this morning in
the five story brick building of the Metro
politan Storage Warehouse, in Thirty
eighth street, between Broadway and Sixth
avenue.
In few moments the flames mounted
up through the structure, finding ready
food in the light stuff stored therin, and
before the iremen arrived the whole place
was raging furnace.
Three alarms were sent out and special
engine companies were summoned from the
neighboring districts The warehouse
formed an L with the Casino building, and
for while it was feared that that beauti-
full temple of light opera would be in ashes,
but IT was saved by the strenuous effort of
the firemen.
EXCITEMENT IN HOTEL.
The Hotel Normandie is quite near, and
soon the sparks descending on this build
ing set it on fire and the guests were hur-
riedly summoned to leave. The porters
rushed through the halls and knocked at
every door. The guests were told that
there WAS no immediate danger. They
asked if they would have time to pack
their valuables, and, being answered in
the affirmative, soon packed their trunks
end carried them down stairs. The fire on
the roof OF the Hotel Norman6ie was soon
eXtinguished, however, and the guests
being reassured, went back To their rooms
Soon after the tiTemen had got to work
at the storage warehouse building terrific
explosion occurred, and seven fremen,
who were at work on the first floor, were
blown through the windows to the street
All of them were very severely burned
about the hands aud face, aud an ambu-
lance was Immediately sent for. When
the ambulance arrived most of the in
jured
FIRENiEN WERE UNCONSCIOUS,
and by that time five of them had been
conveyed in patrol wagon No. to the
hospital. The other two were taken to the
hospital in the ambulance.
Following are the names OF the injured
men:
PETER YEDDER, foreman of Engine No
26; head, face and hands severely burned.
EDWARD CURLEY, head and face burned.
JOHN CONWAY, face and hands burned.
JOHN TREINGER, taCe and hands burned.
JOHN DOUGLAS, face and hands burned.
JAMES De Lacy, fance ami hrnds cut.
PATRICK ID BREEN, severely burned.
Tie was outside the building on a ladder
aud was blown down and fell twenty feet.
He sustained u conclusion of the spine.
Several policeman were cut by flying
glass.
THE Loss VyER HALF A MILLION.
Thc loss, it is thought, will exceed $500,
OOO. The business was conducted by
Scion RidabOcke and the buildings and
lands are the property ofthe Goblet estate.
The fire was discovered by the watch
man, Angus Mcdonald, who was in the
building ut the time and at once sounded
the alarm.
The warehouse WAS used by New York
ers who are out OF town aud contained
furniture, paintings and valuable bric-a-
brac Of all kinds.
ANOTHER FIRE.
An hour before daybreak, while the
storage warehouse WAS burning, a fire
broke out at st. Joseph's Asylum, at
Eighty. ninth street and Avenue A. The
main building WAS soon ablaze and the
colony OF children within were in an up
roar. The outbreak had occurred in the
basement.
Nearly two hundred children, the full
complement of the institution, were asleep
within the walls The Sisters in charge,
who throughout the scene Of terror and
confusion that followed, struggled with
great herOism to preserve order and to
facilitate the work of rescue, aroused the
sleepers promptly and sped them Oh their
way TO the street.
The thick smoke and unknown terrorS
that beset their way threw them into
pluic, however, and the Sisters maintained
their hold upon them with difficulty.
CHILD SEVERELY BURNED.
A police rOundsman luckily came to the
rescue and gave valuable assistance in re-
moving the little ones. With his aid the
building was soon cleared and the chill
dren directed to the police station in
Eighty.eighth street, where they were mar
shalled by the Sisters. None were miss
ing, but Hubert Butz, a ne-year-old or
phan, was severely burned in escaping.
His clothes caught fire and his face and
limbs were badly seorched.
4 hook aud ladder company reached the
asylum as the last Of the children were
emerging on the street. Shrieks were heard
from an upper story and three female at
teudants were found to be imprisoned on
the third floor. They had not dared to
follow the children down stairs. Ladders
were thrown up to the window. and Capt.
Jos. Shaw and Police Roundsman Weise
carried them down. The girls were Chris
tina White, Elizabeth Haineschmake aud
Josephine Dreierbach. They
WERE OVERCOME WITH TERROR,
but uniniured. The iremen made short
work OF the fire. 1t damaged the building
g.. 500. How it broke out is not known.
A few weeks ago the asylum had tire
scare. Some clothing caught fre IN the
cupola on the roof, and one OF the Sisters
hsd her hand burned in putting 1T out.
ST. Joseph's Asylum is in charge Of the
Sisters of Notre Dame. 1t supports, edu-
Gates and employs orphans and homeless
and neglected children, especially OF Ger
man birth, until the age of sixteen years
when they are set to work to take care OF
themselves.
The Remains Taken to Boston.
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